Videos
Innovative application of agro-meteorology data
28/12/2022
The collection and analysis of meteorological data is essential to ensure a proper water management. The functioning of climate sensors and meteorological stations for agricultural uses is presented.
Achieving better production in Asia Pacific through data driven insights enhance water productivity
01/12/2022
In Sri Lanka, FAO is building capacities of local irrigation experts to monitor water productivity, identify water productivity gaps and propose solutions to reduce these gaps with real-time data from the FAO WaPOR platform. Thereby contributing to a sustainable increase of agricultural production that benefits farmers and safeguards the environment.
Achieving better production in Asia-Pacific through digital agriculture
01/12/2022
This short video looks at how a cooperative-run Digital Village Service Centre in Lahiri Mohanpur in rural Bangladesh is promoting innovation and connectivity. Thereby transforming the lives and livelihoods of smallholder dairy farmers and processors. FAO’s global Digital Village Initiative supports inclusive, gender-sensitive rural development and sustainable agrifood systems transformation.
How blockchain can help us transform our agrifood systems
17/10/2022
FAO is already using blockchain technology to ensure transparency, traceability and sustainability of food commodities. Here are a 3 examples of how blockchain can help us transform our agrifood systems.
FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022
19/09/2022
Highlights the centrality of science, technology and innovation for agrifood systems transformation. The event will embrace a diversity of perspectives based on science, thereby facilitating rationalization and inclusiveness of debate.
FAO DG Qu Dongyu Video Message for the Science and Innovation Forum 17-21 October
15/09/2022
FAO DG Qu Dongyu Video Message for the Science and Innovation Forum 17-21 October
FAO Assistant Director-General, Maurizio Martina speaks about the Science and Innovation Forum 2022
13/09/2022
The FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022 will focus on highlighting the centrality of science, technology and innovation for agrifood systems transformation.
FAO Chief Scientist, Ismahane Elouafi invites you to attend the Science and Innovation Forum 2022
06/09/2022
We need #innovation and #technologies to suit and work well for small-scale producers so that we leave no one behind.
FAO’s first ever Science and Innovation Strategy
21/07/2022
How science and innovation can help achieve more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems
How science and innovation can help achieve more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems
07/07/2022
FAO’s first ever Science and Innovation Strategy.
High-level event: Launching of the Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and WUR
15/04/2022
8 April 2022, Wageningen, Netherlands/Rome - Launching of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between FAO and Wageningen University & Research: Science and Innovation for MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems.
FAO and Wageningen University & Research: Science and Innovation for MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems
29/03/2022
FAO and the Wageningen University & Research (WUR) have a long-standing partnership and share common objectives to promote and carry out innovative and sustainable approaches for improving lives while safeguarding natural resources in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In...
The Climate Risk Toolbox on the Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform
23/03/2022
The Climate risk toolbox supports FAO practitioners and the public to ensure that climate risks are fully identified and addressed by all projects and to meet the requirements of both FAO’s Environmental and Social Management Guidelines. The CRTB has been developed to promote the identific...
Using foresight in food safety
22/03/2022
Vittorio Fattori, FAO Food Safety Officer, explains that food may look different in the future than it does today but it still needs to be safe for human consumption. Foresight - a structured, forward-thinking approach – can build a better understanding of the drivers and trends that may affect t...
The FAO AgrInvest – Food Systems project: Enabling sustainable investments in Burkina Faso
11/03/2022
In Burkina Faso, rice is a major staple crop and plays a considerable role in the economy, both as a source of income for poor farmers and as an important element in the diet of many households, especially in urban areas. For this reason, the AgrInvest-Food Systems project of FAO, an initiative ...
Recap video of Global AgriInno Challenge 2021
14/01/2022
This video is to recap the story of the Global AgriInno Challenge (GAC) 2021. GAC 2021 aims are to encourage youth and women to harness innovation, technologies and entrepreneurship to address challenges related to the transformation of rural villages into ‘Digital Villages’ that contribute to the Four Betters.
FAO and the government of UAE, working together to develop a sustainable aquaculture industry
25/10/2021
In the United Arab Emirates the desert stretches for hundreds of kilometres. Summer temperatures rise above 40 degrees Celsius and freshwater is hard to find. Nevertheless, at the Emirates Fish Farm, outside Abu Dhabi, FAO is working with the UAE government to develop the country’s fish farmi...
Innovation in the Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
27/08/2021
With the advent of the digital technology, many Small Island Developing States ( SIDS) have drawn on the power of innovation and digitalization to find solutions in agriculture, food, nutrition, environment and health. Restrictions caused by the arrival of COVID-19 have prompted innovators to loo...